Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Babies being switched at birth in a hospital is a scenario parents would expect only in a movie.

(Barbados Nation) LIAT CHAIRMAN  Jean Holder is admitting the airlines’ failure to adequately make the public understand  its challenges.

(Trinidad Express) Govern-ment is seeking legal advice on the possibility of postponing the local government elections, sources said on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) The State is ready to begin calling witnesses in the five-year-old case against Reshmi Dipnarine, the woman charged with twice raping a 17-year-old boy.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Notorious Mexican drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted of ordering the killing of a U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) One-hundred-and-twenty-seven Jamaicans have been allegedly killed by the police between January 1 and June 30 of this year.

 (Jamaica Gleaner) One-hundred-and-twenty-seven Jamaicans have been allegedly killed by the police between January 1 and June 30 of this year.

(Trinidad Guardian) Construction of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s prized $1.5 billion Couva Children’s Hospital is in jeopardy as seismic and structural experts have called for all work there to be aborted. This

(Trinidad Express) Government is seeking legal advice on the possibility of postponing the local government elections, sources said yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebel leaders negotiating peace with the government must return to the jungle and end their days on the battlefield or in prison if talks under way in Cuba collapse, President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) THE State is ready to begin calling witnesses in the five-year-old case against Reshmi Dipnarine, the woman charged with twice raping a 17-year-old boy.

(Jamaica Observer) GraceKennedy is expected to send its first shipment to Nigeria by year-end.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Phillip Paulwell has refuted media reports of plans by the Government of Venezuela to increase the interest rate on loans provided under the PetroCaribe Agreement.

(Barbados Nation) ROSEAU, Dominica, – Britain does not regard Dominica’s move to join the appellate jurisdiction of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as an act of “anti Privy Council”, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit  said today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A sixteen-year-old boy, who was on the Kingston Central most wanted list, has been captured.

(Trinidad Express) Detectives are investigating the death of a female detainee at the Immigration Detention Centre on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Observer) GraceKennedy is expected to send its first shipment to Nigeria by year-end.

(Jamaica Gleaner)  Auditors poring over the finances of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) have uncovered a massive fraud that could have siphoned off close to J$100 million, insiders have revealed.

(Trinidad Express) Former United National Congress (UNC) senator Lyndira Oudit has joined the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), the Express has learnt.

(Trinidad Express) A woman was bludgeoned to death with a hammer after she attempted to evict a tenant who turned on her.